Flippable Barge for Ocean Engineering Support

Abstract

The report is a final summary of investigations involving preliminary design and study of task capabilities of a flippable barge employed in support of ocean engineering missions. The craft resembles a large ocean going barge with tanks and piping arranged such that one end can be flooded and the vehicle rotated into a vertical position. In this attitude it would be a deep draft work platform with stability comparable to FLIP but with much larger payload, allowing performance of much more demanding missions. A one-eighth scale model (45 feet long) of the barge has been built and tested at sea, including successfully flipping, deploying and recovering a deck load of spar buoys.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA001016

Entities

People

  • A. E. May
  • L. S. Tomooka

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Conditioning
  • Ballast Tanks
  • Compressors
  • Construction
  • Cost Estimates
  • Electrical Equipment
  • Emergency Egress
  • Energy Transfer
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Floating Platforms
  • Fuel Oils
  • Health Services
  • Oceans
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Salt Water
  • Transducers

Readers

  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Oceanography.
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